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"Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematic Classroom offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teachers interested in teaching mathematics in a way that challenges stratification based upon race, class, gender and other forms of oppression that students face in today‘s world.
With the publication of this book, all teachers will have available to them instructional strategies in mathematics for meeting the academic needs of culturally diverse students. They will have an explanation of the linkage between culture and students mathematical cognition and problem solving. The ease in which Leonard brings the reader along, and the caring way she tells a story about making mathematics a fun and social justice experience makes for an exciting learning opportunity for all students and teachers."
Carl A. Grant, University Wisconsin-Madison, United States, From the Foreword

"Mathematics educators are in a period of deep concern about our ability to educate all students in mathematics. Most students of color do not have the opportunities to fully learn mathematics. Nothing more important can be done for these students and their teachers than to publish this book addressing the miseducation of these students and offering a way to change what we are doing."
Carol E. Malloy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, United States

This compelling text advocates the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students. It accomplishes this by making clear the link between research and practice and offering lesson templates that teachers can use with ethnically and culturally diverse students and with females. Specifically, the text draws on sociocultural theory and research on culture and mathematics cognition to focus on three goals: using qualitative research to extend the literature on culturally based education to African American and Latina/o c

"Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom: Strategies for Teachers and Students is a must-have resource for mathematics teachers, teacher educators, and school personnel who serve (diverse) student populations....This book indeed moves the field of mathematics education forward and should be an indispensable staple on the bookshelves of preservice and inservice mathematics teachers and mathematics teacher educators."--Journal of Urban Mathematics Education

"Easy reading, sound in its recommendations, and useful for teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners, Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom offers compelling insight into the importance of mathematics and cultural education and provides confining examples of how to teach both subjects effectively and simultaneously."--Harvard Educational Review

"Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom: Strategies for Teachers and Students is a must-have resource for mathematics teachers, teacher educators, and school personnel who serve (diverse) student populations....This book indeed moves the field of mathematics education forward and should be an indispensable staple on the bookshelves of preservice and inservice mathematics teachers and mathematics teacher educators."--Journal of Urban Mathematics Education

"Easy reading, sound in its recommendations, and useful for teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners, Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom offers compelling insight into the importance of mathematics and cultural education and provides confining examples of how to teach both subjects effectively and simultaneously."--Harvard Educational Review